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Fri, 09 May 2008 08:23:07 GMT
River Landing gets national attention (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
  • Coralville's Iowa River Landing recently received recognition at the Brownfields 2008 conference. Coralville Mayor Jim Fausett accepted the national First Runner-up trophy from EPA Region 7 in the competition for the Phoenix award.

  • Thu, 08 May 2008 19:48:54 GMT
    Hoch, Roberts To Play In Principal Charity Classic (KCCI 8 Des Moines)
  • WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Scott Hoch and Loren Roberts have committed to play in the Principal Charity Classic at Glen Oaks Country Club in West Des Moines.

  • Wed, 07 May 2008 14:35:06 GMT
    About Town - Wednesday, May 7 (Shenandoah Valley News Today)
  • If you're retired from Iowa Power, you'll want to make plans to attend the next meeting of the Iowa Power Retirees planned for 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 6 at Godfather's Pizza in Shenandoah.

  • Wed, 07 May 2008 15:57:50 GMT
    Picture This: Lynch Classic (The Record)
  • In the 1989 fairy-tale baseball movie "Field of Dreams," Kevin Costner's character, Ray Kinsella, is haunted by an inner voice that commands him inexplicably to build a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield. Eventually his dream is realized – playing baseball with his deceased father.

  • Sun, 04 May 2008 03:06:12 GMT
    Trail funding lags behind demand (The Gazette)
  • Trail activist Tom Neenan of Center Point can remember back almost a quarter-century, when the main adversaries of Iowa's emerging recreational trails were the skeptical owners of adjacent lands.Landowners would lobby county supervisors against allowing trails to pass their land on old railroad easements, claiming vandalism, littering and rowdiness would follow. Even after volunteers built the ...

  • Sun, 04 May 2008 06:10:44 GMT
    Regency faults 'perfect storm' for collapse (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)
  • Jamie Myers seemed the envy of Iowa's home-building industry just a year and a half ago.

  • Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:55:53 GMT
    Changes ahead for sex offender registray (The Daily Reporter)
  • The Iowa Sex Offender Registry will take a step toward real-time public notification following the announcement of a federal grant earlier this month.

  • Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:10:50 GMT
    Washington DC (The San Francisco Examiner)
  • DES MOINES, Iowa , April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wells Fargo Financial National Bank -- part of the consumer finance subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC ) -- has launched a revolving credit card program to give consumers flexible payment options for select healthcare and veterinary services.

  • Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:23:36 GMT
    Principle Real Estate Group buys new warehouse in west Phoenix (The Business Journal of Phoenix)
  • A financial services company based in Des Moines, Iowa, paid $23 million this month for a newly built warehouse in the Buckeye Logistics Center, 6825 W. Buckeye Road, Phoenix.

  • Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:21:04 GMT
    350 Regency-linked firms file liens (The Des Moines Register)
  • At least 350 central Iowa businesses scrambled on Monday to recover debts owed to them by Regency Cos. of Des Moines, worried that the state’s largest home builder could declare bankruptcy.

  • Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:26:17 GMT
    Regency Homes Lays Off 103 Employees (KCCI 8 Des Moines)
  • Iowa's largest homebuilder, Regency Homes Inc., has laid off most of the employees in its homebuilding and land development companies.

  • Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:21:30 GMT
    Iowa's largest homebuilder lays off 103 workers (Sioux City Journal)
  • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa's largest homebuilder, Regency Homes Inc., laid off all its employees except for top management in its homebuilding and land development companies Friday.

  • Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:41:44 GMT
    Executive Q&A: Jerry O'Brien - More to retailing than stocking shelves (Wisconsin State Journal)
  • Jerry O 'Brien is getting used to working on Thursdays. For 27 years, the Iowa native worked for Target, one of the largest retailers in the country. The last 10 of those years he spent working as manager of the Target store on Madison 's Far West Side. Thursday was his day off, when he relished the uncrowded golf course. Since fall 2006, O 'Brien has been part of the Monday through Friday ...

  • Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:11:43 GMT
    State's largest home-builder lays off 103 workers (The Gazette)
  • DES MOINES (AP) and#8212; Iowa's largest home-builder, Regency Homes Inc., laid off all its employees except for top management in its homebuilding and land development companies Friday.A letter addressed to friends and partners of the West Des Moines-based privately held company said employees were told Friday afternoon of "deep layoffs."The company said it is working with financial advisers ...

  • Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:26:17 GMT
    AP: Regency Homes Lays Off 103 Employees (KCCI 8 Des Moines)
  • The Associated Press is reporting that Iowa's largest homebuilder, Regency Homes Inc., has laid off most of the employees in its homebuilding and land development companies.